I purchased 1 hour of internet time to keep me from staying up too long and from going online tomorrow morning instead of packing my suitcase.  The starbus should pick me up at 6:00.  So it’ll be writus interruptus in about seven minutes. 

Today was also an early day that started with some time online and the realization that in fact the air conditioning does work, if the little switch on the power outlet is turned on.  I now know how to operate Australian power outlets, something I thought wouldn’t take any learning at all. 

I had a morning meeting, a burger for lunch at a sandwich place in an industrial area, a taxi ride to another meeting, and a train ride back to the city.  In the city I bought enough bottled fizzy water to make a Melbourne garden envious, returned to a cool hotel room, and called Tim Davey.  This gave him a bit of an excuse to leave work and I got another fabulous evening with Alice/Caitlin, Isobel, Tim and Viv.  Alice/Caitlin and Tim together put the toppings on the pizza dough Viv had made, a traditional division of labor with delightful results. 

During the bedtime reading, Caitlin asked what it meant to kill.  It’s weird how we take acquired meanings for granted, meanings and concepts we once did not understand in the least. 

Tomorrow I’m off for Japan and hoping that next time I’m in Australia I’ll have enough sense to book a few days of vacation…